I don’t want a GTR... let me rephrase... I can’t afford a GTR. But I contacted Japanese Classics about the soon-to-be-legal Honda Beat and Suzuki Cappuccino and was given a solid estimate of around $8,000-10,000 OTD for a clean example. Which is about what I could get for my GTV6 on a very, very good day. So huzzah. I…

Because it is poser bullshit. No different than buying a fake purse for your wife.

I’m in the “liked the look of the 12C better” camp. I’d do the tune and add the vorstiener body kit:

Why not skip the body kit and just get the tune?

And you get to pay him for it too!

I approached it in this manner because his work is traced, which violates everything we learn in professional art school:

I’m bitter because there are artists far greater than this who don’t trace and some of whom don’t even charge (because they need the practice for their portfolio) who could benefit far more than someone who does trace. In design, we’re taught that it’s absolutely fine to trace to garner proportions for a new design.…

See... this, THIS is the right way to do fake engine noises. Take a lie, extend it to the point of absurdity, and it becomes theatre.

I don't get it. What's dull about this car? 300hp, bold lines and the best interior Nissan has done in years. It's not the Malibu?

please make it stop.